Brooks Memorial Library - Brattleboro VT

43rd Annual (Take Home) Design-a-Plate Workshop
2024-09-24, 2024-09-25, 2024-09-26, 2024-09-27, 2024-09-28, 2024-09-30, 2024-10-01, 2024-10-02 and 3 more dates | Children’s Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Welcome to the 43rd Annual (Take Home) Design-a-Plate Workshop!
You can pick up your packet in the Children’s Room any time between Tuesday, September 24th and Wednesday, October 16th. You can return your packet and payment to the library at any point up to 8pm on Wednesday, October 16th.
Design-a-Plate this year has a cost of $7 per item.

Town Arts Committee
2024-09-24 17:00 - 19:00 (America/New_York) | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The monthly meeting of the Town Arts Committee members invites guests and the public to discuss town arts!

Queer Council of Brattleboro - Monthly Volunteer Meeting
2024-09-24 19:00 - 20:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join the Queer Council of Brattleboro for this a month meeting offering information, trainings, and organizing for those who are interested in learning about supporting LGBTQ+ resilience and revelry!
Meeting on the last Tuesday of every month from 7 – 8:30 pm.

Rhyme Time
2024-09-25 10:30 - 11:00, 2024-10-02 10:30 - 11:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us on Wednesday mornings @ 10:30 am for 30 minutes of stories, songs, and fun!
Rhyme Time is for kids 5 & under and their caregivers.

Game Cafe!
2024-09-25 18:00 - 20:45, 2024-10-02 18:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room D – Quiet Reading Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Come join game enthusiasts in playing Magic the Gathering in various formats (including Commander/EDH) as well as other fun and creative board & card games.
Bring your favorite games- All Ages Welcome!

Meg Mott: What does the First Amendment Ask of Us?
2024-09-25 18:30 - 20:30 | Main Reading Room
The right to protest is one of the people’s most fundamental freedoms, but what about speech that veers toward lawlessness or social disorder? During most of the 20th century, governments put speakers in jail for creating a “clear and present danger.” Under that rule, Eugene Debs went to prison for denouncing the first World War and Charlotte Whitney went to jail for belonging to the Communist Party. As far as the government was concerned, their sentences were too dangerous to be heard in public.
In 1969, the Supreme Court changed the rule. Only words that caused “immanent lawless action” could be suppressed. In the Brandenburg decision, the ACLU successfully defended a Klansman, giving all of us greater freedom from government prosecution. The Black and Jewish advocates who came to the aid of Clarence Brandenburg were able to see the principles of free speech beyond his racist and anti-Semitic rhetoric.
The question for us post-Brandenburg is, How can we love the principle even when we don’t like the speech?
Co-sponsored by Windham World Affairs, Vermont Humanities, The Commons, Vermont Independent Media: Voices Live, and Brattleboro Community Television.

Sing & Dance with Robin – CANCELED
2024-09-26 11:00 - 12:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
CANCELED THIS WEEK!
Sing & Dance will be back next week on 10/3/24!

2024 Zone CEDS Public Meeting
2024-09-26 12:00 - 13:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join regional community and economic development partners at this session to review and discuss the proposed 2024-2029 Southern Vermont Zone Comprehensive Economic Development Strategy (CEDS).
Input from local residents — including community volunteers, community leaders, business owners, and anyone who is interested in shaping the direction of the region — is critical to shaping this important strategic plan that helps us achieve the vision of the Southern VT Economic Development Zone: “In 2030, the Zone will be home to a resilient, creative, and inclusive community in which businesses and people thrive and prosper.”
In the meeting, we’ll review the progress made on the 2019-2023 CEDS objectives, and look at what goals, strategies and objectives should guide our work as a region for the next 5 years.

The Board Gaming Guild
2024-09-27 15:30 - 16:30, 2024-10-04 15:30 - 16:30 | Children’s Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Come join in on the fun with the Brooks Memorial Library’s Board Gaming Guild!
Now every Friday at 3:30pm. Stop by to have a great time playing board games in the Children’s Room!
Ages 8 and up. No sign up required!

Brattleboro in Stitches
2024-09-28 13:00 - 16:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Bring a work in progress to sew, knit, crochet, embroider, or mend. Sewing machines, irons, and companionship will be provided.

Vermont Theatre Company - Open Auditions
2024-09-30 18:00 - 20:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
The community is welcome to audition for four short plays at once! Vermont Theatre Company is producing a festival of one act plays in November, and you are invited to take part!
Anyone and everyone is welcome to join for an evening of theatre games and reading scenes with each other.
For more information contact vttheatreco@gmail.com.

Book Launch--Robin's Song with Lynn Levine and Friends
2024-09-30 19:00 - 20:30 | Main Reading Room
In Robin’s Song, Robin, dealing with loss and anxiety, leaves Brooklyn to come to live in a small Vermont town with her cousin Darcey. Through nature, music and poetry, the tweens bond, while Robin learns skills to deal with her emotions.
Author Lynn Levine will speak about why she wrote Robin’s Song and about her personal story of dealing with mental health challenges.
Carol Compton, Education Programs Director for Brattleboro Music Center, will discuss how music both heals and empowers and their approach to helping students deal with their emotional self.
Ann Gengarelly, a poet, who runs the Poetry Studio, will talk about the ways poetry supports the emotional health of young people and empowers them.
Michael Clough, Executive Director of Museum of Natural History will talk about their approach to the topic of how nature heals and empowers, specifically focusing on their approach to working with preteens. He will bring a live animal.
Lynn Levine has worked with children and adults in classrooms and libraries and has taken thousands of people into the forest to share her love of nature. She finds that connecting people to the forest though teaching about the outdoors is a powerful way to help others feel the same. She is author of: Mammal Tracks and Scat: Life-Size Pocket Guide; Snow Secrets; Is It Time, Yet? Identifying Ferns the Easy Way: A Pocket Guide to Common Ferns of the Northeast, and is co-author of Working with Your Woodland: A Landowner’s Guide and Mammal Tracks and Scat Life Size-Tracking Guide.
You can learn more about her books at Heartwoodpress.com.
All of Lynn’s books will be available for sale and signing.

Mineralogical Society
2024-10-01 18:00 - 20:45 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join the Brattleboro Mineralogical Society to discuss Minerals and other Geological topics!

Express Fluency - Border Diaries: What is Really Happening at the US/Mexico Border?
2024-10-02 18:30 - 19:30 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Putney residents, Elissa McLean and Andy Winter, will share their experiences providing humanitarian aid to asylum seekers at the southern border in 2023 and 2024.
Learn about how the situation has changed there since Biden’s executive order in June and what aid groups are doing to offer support to those in need.

Sing & Dance with Robin
2024-10-03 11:00 - 12:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
For Ages 0-5 and their caregivers, held in the BML Community Meeting Room.
This lovely class is an enriching musical experience for toddlers and preschoolers, designed to support healthy cognitive, physical, and social development. Children will sing, clap, stomp, dance, and play along with the curriculum of traditional and modern folk songs. Parents will be encouraged to fully sing and participate with their child in the class.

LEGO-Palooza
2024-10-03 15:00 - 17:00 | Meeting Room A – Community Meeting Room, 224 Main Street, Brattleboro, VT, 05301, United States
Join us on Thursdays after school from 3-5pm to play with LEGOs!
We provide the LEGOs. You build. Do not bring your own LEGOs.
Children cannot keep LEGOs, but if there is enough room, we will display them in the window.
Free and open to the public!
